Rockalot

Wishlist Bumper Bout!
🎮 Solo Indie Game Developer from Brisbane Australia.

[Rockalot @Rockalot_Dev]

Bumper Bout is a PvP Pinball versus game! Play locally on the couch against each other or online.

Pick a character with powers, stages with crazy mechanics, and duke it out.

Wishlist here! (please!): https://t.co/KimGJ4COqL #gamedev #indiegame #pinball #indiedev #videogame

[Rockalot @Rockalot_Dev]

@OlexaYT Ooh I see, I think the first point of contact people have with the concept needs to be clearer then. I think that's a wonderful idea, best of luck getting it through!

[Gwdihŵ 🦉 @youwouldknow]

Timeline cleanse ✨

[Rockalot @Rockalot_Dev]

@Ganeshdeux So bizzare to me that anyone at all disliked this movie it's so so good

[Lokh - The Key of Anarkh 🎵🎸🎶 @TheKeyOfAnarkh]

-Indie dev encounters issues at the end of their development cycle
-indie dev attempts to troubleshoot said issues
-indie dev consults the MANUFACTURER of their game engine, THEY can't solve their issues
-as a last-ditch effort to avoid shipping a game with a glitch they can't iron out, they spitball with an LLM
-surprisingly, LLM assists in workarounds that fix said issues
-despite not needing to disclose (per steam TOS), the dev is honest about their disclosure when nominated for awards to be transparent.

I would say House House did everything right. An LLM was used to solve problems humans could not. It didnt generate assets. It didnt infringe on the creative process.

I hate what AI, and particularly GenAI has done to the gaming industry, but this is a stupid fucking hill to die on. This isn't vibe coding. This isn't slop. This is what AI was SUPPOSED to do in industry.

Pick the right battles, people.

[Rockalot @Rockalot_Dev]

@navalta_gfx People hated this movie?

[Rockalot @Rockalot_Dev]

@OlexaYT 100%

[Naya Torinko 💛🐥 @nayatorinko]

TLDR on the Big Walk article. Some awards judges say they won’t vote for games that used gen AI during development. House House used a chatbot to help fix bugs. The studio says it didn’t use AI to make the game’s art.

The example they gave was a bug in Unity’s graphics system. The game kept trying to draw shadows from objects way behind the player, so it ran about half as fast for a bit at sunrise and sunset. The devs dug through the code and even asked someone at Unity for help. A chatbot eventually suggested a workaround, which the devs had to change quite a bit to get working. The fix ended up being about 10 lines of code.

This is where I wish people had a little more nuance. I’m all for calling out gen AI when it rips off artists. I also think asking a chatbot why your game runs like garbage at sunset is a different use from asking it to make the art players see. You can have concerns about how the chatbot was trained and still care about what the devs actually used it for. That detail matters to me.

Everyone and their mother was singing Big Walk’s praises. Now I’m seeing people curse out and wish bad things on the same devs who made a game they were just having fun with. You’re allowed to enjoy a game and disagree with a choice the people making it made. I just think going after them personally over what sounds like a pretty minor use is a bit much. Like, can we at least get past the headline first?

[Rockalot @Rockalot_Dev]

@NathanielJDev Looks so goooooood hnn

[Rockalot @Rockalot_Dev]

This level of rigging is just mind bending. Incredibly cool.

[Novaj 👑🌸 Live2D Animator @justNovaj]

Did a fun little thing w/ Cheek Puff :3c
Holding a cheek puff will start turning the face red and the color comes back when you finally let go hehe ☺️

wip preview in #live2d

[加藤瑠菜@Latteart☕.◦*.＊。🇯🇵 @RunaPocket]

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[Rockalot @Rockalot_Dev]

This look so good! Every time I see it I want it nowww

[Nathaniel Jones | Dyadem @NathanielJDev]

🪽- Wings and Chat

🛠️ - I made a short video showing off the Bond Conversations system in my #SRPG #IndieGame!

[Rockalot @Rockalot_Dev]

Skill Up chose my game as his "Put this on your radar" pick for this weeks This Week in Video Games!

I am absolutely in shock I never expected this. This is personally who I watch for my games industry headlines and always have

Completely humbled and in awe. Wow

https://t.co/GOVurKgwfr #indiedev #TWiVG

[ななし @fv5b9x]

ふぁあ🫧

[Veekay💛Egg Head Vtuber🥚 @VeekayTv]

Do you think more gaming platforms should impliment this toggle? #indiegames

[Rockalot @Rockalot_Dev]

@wintersong_game This looks absolutely sick I'm so on board

[Rockalot @Rockalot_Dev]

100% If real people are to continue making interactive art in any sort of financially meaningful way then this needs to be the future.

Also go check out Veekay, she's a huge indie ally and a wonderful personality you won't regret it!

[Veekay💛Egg Head Vtuber🥚 @VeekayTv]

Do you think more gaming platforms should impliment this toggle? #indiegames

[Rockalot @Rockalot_Dev]

Launch trailer!

#indiedev #indiegame #pinball #steamgames

https://t.co/ZrAd11AaLe

[Rockalot @Rockalot_Dev]

@VeekayTv @Amplified_Games